Samsung and others have proven that there is a market for giant smartphones, warts and all. But that doesn't mean that just any smartphone is better if it's bigger, and the 1520 is a prime example of that. It's bigger and faster than any other Windows Phone yet, but it's not necessarily a better Windows Phone because of that. If all you've ever wanted in life is a Lumia 925 with a magnifying glass on top of it, the 1520 is exactly that. It's a tour de force in resolution and speed, but it's not a great smartphone or even a great replacement for a tablet.

And yet, it'll be a better tablet than any Windows 8.1 RT device. There's something poetic about that.

Yep, and it sucks because I really, really liked my HTC Arrive. Even the 7.8 update didn't fix all the bugs it had, and it simply was too unreliable for daily use after nearly two years of trying to ignore those bugs. It's a shame, because the Windows Phone OS was so close to the perfect platform for me.

If they could somehow port WP8 to the Arrive and have it be stable and fluid, I'd run back to that phone in a heartbeat, even with Sprint's slow 3G here. Sadly, there are no WP8 phones with four row, tilting keyboards that I'm aware of.